Lux, Johann (2022) Need States and Behavioral Compensation Following (Online) Ostracism. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Ostracism, the process of rejection and exclusion, presents a threat to the satisfaction of psychological needs. According to the Need-Threat model (Williams, 2009), threatened needs are aimed to be fortified. Need fortification may be displayed through diverse behavioral measures. In the present study, participants were told to enter a social media platform and interact with other users. Within this social media platform, participants were either excluded (the experimental condition) or included (the control condition). The current paper explores whether a change in need satisfaction after a behavioral compensation, namely need fortification, can be observed in ostracized people. First, we tested whether individuals in the experimental condition experience less need satisfaction than individuals in the control condition, after being ostracized. Further, we expected that antisocial behavior mediates the process of need fortification of power needs (need for control, need for esteem) and explains the need satisfaction change in ostracized participants. As anticipated, ostracized participants, compared to non-ostracized participants, reported a lower need satisfaction after the threat. In line with our hypothesis, ostracized participants reported a higher change in need satisfaction, compared to participants in the control condition. However, we found that antisocial behavior did not mediate this effect, which leaves the reasons for the change in need satisfaction, unexplained in the present paper. Future research is advised to extend evidence on the relationship between need states and compensation behavior in the context of ostracism. With the current relevance of social media, future projects should also pay more attention to online ostracism.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Agostini, M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2022 08:08 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2022 08:08 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1034 |
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